{"id":174699,"date":"2026-02-21T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:56:10","slug":"senator-ted-cruz-receives-award-for-mr-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174699\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ted Cruz receives award for Mr. South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Senator Ted Cruz was recognized on Saturday, Feb. 21, by the Washington\u2019s Birthday Celebration Association for his contributions to Laredo and the South Texas region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The WBCA named him Mr. South Texas for his contributions to the growth of Laredo and the South Texas region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mr. South Texas Selection Committee, made up of past WBCA presidents and former honorees, selected Cruz for the honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Laredo Mayor Dr. Victor Trevino presented him with the award today alongside city and county officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cruz is the first elected Republican named Mr. South Texas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/2025\/08\/21\/sen-ted-cruz-honored-mr-south-texas-2026-during-laredo-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/2025\/08\/21\/sen-ted-cruz-honored-mr-south-texas-2026-during-laredo-visit\/\">received the key to the City of Laredo<\/a> in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Senator Ted Cruz was recognized on Saturday, Feb. 21, by the Washington\u2019s Birthday Celebration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15513,7685,7686,70576,31584,7883,27,29,28,464,70577,33188],"class_list":{"0":"post-174699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-award","9":"tag-kgns","10":"tag-laredo","11":"tag-mr-south-texas","12":"tag-senator","13":"tag-ted-cruz","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-headlines","16":"tag-texas-news","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-wbca","19":"tag-webb-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}